Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life.
-John Muir

Shot I took at the Electric Windows event that Open Space Gallery put on in Beacon a few weeks back. Not sure who the artists is.

New work in the Composite section.

(detail)

Before I Die I Want To is sort of like the bucket list with self portrait Polaroid photos. Some really funny ones along with some that are just boring and yeah… everyone wants to fall in love and see the world. Here are some that I found interesting, but check it out before you die.

At least he is honest.

OK…what?!

Kind of missing the idea, but I like the answer.

More like just before you die…

Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.
-Walt Whitman

Things do not change; we change.
-Henry David Thoreau

New York documentarian Richard Sandler will be screening two of his films, Brave New York and Sway, at the 6B Garden on August 22.Brave New York is a free form documentary that loosely chronicles the last 12 years of intense change in the east village “hood.” From the reopening of a newly curfewed Tompkins Square Park and Wigstock in ‘92, to the destruction of the cherished Loisaida Community Gardens, to the yuppie invasions of the dot com years, to the present era, indelibly stamped with post-9/11 grief, this durable, lusty neighborhood survives in spite of a real estate gold rush that has excluded all but the well-to-do. The movie’s main voices are those of the artists and street people whose wisdom and commentaries upon the dominant culture give us pause amidst the speedy approach of a “Brave New World.”
(via ill soul)